New Year's Flask
Description
Caption: New Year's Flask, ca. 1539–1190 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (6.8 x 19 cm); rim: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Peter Sharrer, 81.313. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small pottery jar with an incised depiction of a sphinx and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a pottery vessel featuring an incised image of a sphinx lying down, accompanied by hieroglyphic inscriptions. The sphinx is finely detailed, demonstrating traditional elements of Egyptian art. The hieroglyphs are inscribed around the image in neatly organized rows, suggesting a potential commemorative or ceremonial purpose.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 81.313 tier-2
- BKM-Object 109205 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.